Cost of Rebuild so far

[kevski]

The fact we are all crackers enough to do it in the first place helps. 

Ha, I was going to say that but calling people 'crackers' is not PC, so I'm told  ;
It's like all hobbies I suppose, the fun and enjoyment of using what we have created, mended or fettled, far outweighs the financial cost.

As i don't subscribe to the PC Brigade, crackers does not even touch the surface, we are feckin stoopid, but it's our passion and its only money.

[Woodside]

Im wanting to make mine look like my old one , this was a few years ago Im sitting on this with my Nephew who is 36 years old now (Attachment Link)

do you have the fairing...i ask as i have one the same or at least very similar hanging on the wall in my garage....taken from a 400 so all brackets too

[RGP750]

Coo Woodside to the rescue again (may be)

[Colonial-Clive (yindi)]

Counted mine up too £3900 most of it DS receipts not including price of the bike !o! And 2 years of bliss hiding in the garage....

[AshimotoK0]

I reckon if us restorers  added the postage/shipping costs alone, that we have forked out over the last ten years, it would be a staggering sum   

[Woodside]

this old one

[Integra99]

So how many of you have partners that are led to believe all of your purchases have a "0" dropped off the price¬! Or is it just me!

"Is that new" ..... "what this.. ahem nope I've painted it"!

[llessur]

My wife reckons that my "spend" is worth it, as it keeps me out her way and she reckons the only time I am happy is when I have a project, and that between projects I "mope" and get miserable. (An addiction to restoration, with withdrawl symptoms ?)
Last 400/4 cost me £3600 in original bike and parts but I do all the painting, spraying, building myself ( and use the media blaster at the company I worked for )

[AshimotoK0]

So how many of you have partners that are led to believe all of your purchases have a "0" dropped off the price¬! Or is it just me!

"Is that new" ..... "what this.. ahem nope I've painted it"!

I used to do that but since I took her to an autojumble in the Summer  selling Honda parts  and got her to sell some parts on eBay , she realises now that what was previously classed as 'junk', is now 'treasure'.

[Nurse Julie]

No secrets in this house and no missing '0's on the price of bikes or bike parts purchased. It would be impossible for either myself or Trigger to pull the wool over each others eyes with anything to do with bikes. Handbags.........well, that's another story!! 

[hairygit]

No secrets in this house and no missing '0's on the price of bikes or bike parts purchased. It would be impossible for either myself or Trigger to pull the wool over each others eyes with anything to do with bikes. Handbags.........well, that's another story!! 

So Trig never told you what he paid for his last handbag then?

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[Nurse Julie]

No secrets in this house and no missing '0's on the price of bikes or bike parts purchased. It would be impossible for either myself or Trigger to pull the wool over each others eyes with anything to do with bikes. Handbags.........well, that's another story!! 

So Trig never told you what he paid for his last handbag then?

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I bloody knew you would say that Hairy  But no, he didn't tell me how much it was, we have to have some secrets 

[UK Pete]

All these costs i am reading seem so tame when compared to restoring sandcasts and early k0's

[Nurse Julie]

All these costs i am reading seem so tame when compared to restoring sandcasts and early k0's

Yes Pete, telephone numbers come to mind !!!

[Integra99]

Ha ha... and a blind eye is turned in our house at Horse riding costs.. and are they new boots?